The big evening concert: "Max Reger pure"

The Merseburg Organ Festival is taking place for the 53rd time, with the magnificent Ladegast organ in Merseburg Cathedral taking centre stage. From 9 to 17 September 2023, the audience can look forward to numerous concerts with top-class organists. Under the title "AppetitAnReger - Max Reger on his 150th birthday", we will be commemorating the important German composer of the late Romantic period, Max Reger, in 2023.

The big evening concert
Organ concert "Max Reger pure - a biographical organ concert"
On the Ladegast organ: Martin Schmeding, Professor of Organ at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig

Tickets are available in advance via reservix.de, adticket.com and in the Tourist-Information Merseburg

Program

Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
From: Three pieces op. 7 (1892)
No. 1 Prelude and Fugue in C major

Lyrical Andante (Liebestraum) WoO III/7 (1898)

Fantasy on the chorale "Hallelujah! To praise God, remain the joy of my soul!" op. 52, No. 3 (1900)

From: Monologues op. 63 (1902)
No. 5 Introduction in F minor
No. 6 Passacaglia in F minor

From: Twelve pieces for organ op.65 (1902)
No. 4 Consolation in E major

From: Twelve Pieces op. 80 (1904)
No.11 Toccata in A minor
No. 12 Fugue in A minor

Fantasy and Fugue in D minor op.135b (1915)
(Version of the first print)